Accentuate

Definition: Accentuate

Accentuate

Verb

1. To stress, single out as important: "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "accentuate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

Note: Accentuate \Ac*cen"tu*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Accentuated; present participle verb or noun Accentuating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Accentuate

Importance

Attach importance to, ascribe importance to, give importance to; Noun: value, care for, set store upon, set store by; mark; mark with a white stone, underline; write in italics, put in italics, print in italics, print in capitals,print in large letters, put in large type, put in letters. of gold; accentuate, emphasize, lay stress on.

Voice

Verb: utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry; (shout); ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear.

Crosswords: Accentuate

Books

• Accentuate the Negative (Prentice Hall Connected Mathematics) (reference)

• Accentuate the Positive (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Puzzle Place: Accentuate the Positive (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Accentuate the Positive (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

A potentially effective strategy for promoting U.S. tourism in France is to accentuate American differences while recognizing that the French have a keen interest in history and historic places. (references)

Economic History

Burkina Faso

Annual rainfall varies from about 100 centimeters (40 in.) in the south to less than 25 centimeters (10 in.) in the north and northeast, where hot desert winds accentuate the dryness of the region. (references)

Korea

Due to the recent easing of study abroad restrictions by the Korean government, this trend will only accentuate over the next few years, resulting in more applications to U.S. high schools as well as to colleges and higher educational institutions. (references)

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Afrikaan

beklemtoon (accent, stress). (various references)

Albanian

acaroj (aggravate, chafe, exacerbate, fluster, jar, nettle, peeve, sharpen), theksoj (emphasize, highlight, point, punctuate, sharpen, stress), nënvizoj (dash, emphasize, highlight, italicize, punctuate, score under, stress, underline, underscore), e vë theksin mbi (emphasize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وضع (affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, place, placement, plant, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, stuff, tuck, utter, writing), ‏وضح (clarify, clear up, define, elucidate, explain, illuminate, illustrate, light, lighten, puzzle out, ravel out, represent, spell, state), ‏أكد (affirm, assert, asseverate, assure, aver, avouch, bear out, check up on, confirm, contend, corroborate, declare, double check, emphasize, predicate, proclaim, profess, protest, punctuate, show, substantiate, swear, underline, underscore, vouch, warrant), ‏شكل (boil, cast, categorize, comprise, constitute, dot, fashion, form, formalize, format, frame, guise, likeness, make, modality, mode, model, mold, mould, punctuate, put together, semblance, shape, sort, style, trace, vocalize, way), ‏برز (break out, bring out, bulge, come into view, display, emerge, excrete, feature, form, germinate, heighten, image, jut, outcrop, outdo, point, project, protrude, raise, relieve, shine, shoot, show up, spring, stand out, stick, stick out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

наблягам на (emphasize, press, stress), акцентувам (accent), привличам вниманието върху, поставям ударение на (accent), подчертавам (accent, emphasize, enhance, highlight, insist, play up, point, point out, press, score under, set off, set out, underline, underscore), изтъквам (accent, adduce, bring out, distinguish, emphasize, feature, highlight, notice, pinpoint, play up, point out, represent, show off, show up, signalize, single out, throw up, urge). (various references)

Chinese 

强调 (Accentuated, Accentuating, emphasise, emphasised, Emphasize, Emphasized, Emphasizing, Emphatic, Emphatical, underlie, underline). (various references)

Czech

zdùraznit (bring out, emphasize, highlight, lay stress, reiterate, stress, underline), přízvukovat (accent, stress), oznaèit přízvukem, klást přízvuk na. (various references)

Danish

lægge vægt på (accent, emphasize). (various references)

Dutch

beklemtonen (accent, stress), accentueren (accent, highlight, stress). (various references)

Esperanto

akcenti (accent, stress), emfazi (accent, emphasize). (various references)

Faeroese

leggja dent á (accent, stress), leggja áherðslu á (accent, stress), herða á ljóð (accent, stress). (various references)

French

souligner (accent), accentuer (accent). (various references)

German

betonen (accent, emphasize, intonate, point up, punctuate, stress, to accentuate, to emphasize, to stress, urge), akzentuieren (articulate, enunciate, stress, to accentuate). (various references)

Greek 

τονίζω (accent, emphasize, highlight, intone, key, make much of, pitch, punctuate, show off, stress, tone, tune). (various references)

Hawaiian

acaroj (aggravate). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�"�'יש (accent, emphasize, stress, underscore), ל�"טעים (accent, emphasize, intone, stress). (various references)

Hungarian

hangsúlyoz (accent, emphasize, stress, to accent, to accentuate, to angle, to emphasise, to emphasize, to stress). (various references)

Indonesian

menonjolkan, mengutamakan (extrude, prioritize), mementingkan. (various references)

Italian

accentare (accent, stress), accentuare (accent, emphasize, stress). (various references)

Manx

jannoo ny strimmey (aggravate). (various references)

Norwegian

fremheve, betone. (various references)

Pig Latin

accentuateay.(various references)

Portuguese

acentuar (accent, emphatic, stress, underline). (various references)

Romanian

accentua (accent, emphasize, increase, sharpen, strengthen, stress, underline), sublinia (accent, aver, emphasize, italicize, punctuate, represent, score, stress, underline, underscore). (various references)

Russian 

подчеркивать (emphasize, italicize, lay emphasis on, lay stress, place emphasis on, punctuate, put emphasis on, score under, stress, underline, underscore). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

akcentovati (accent, emphasize), podvući (point up, score under, tuck, tuck in, underline, underscore), naglasiti (accent, emphasize, stress, underline), istaći (distinguish, feature, headline, highlight, point up, post, set off, take, underlain). (various references)

Spanish

acentuar (accent, accentuates, distinguish, elevate, emphasize, sharpen, stress). (various references)

Swedish

betona (accent, accentutate, emphasize, give emphasis to, put emphasis on, stress, underline, urge), accentuera (accent, accentutate). (various references)

Turkish

vurgulu okumak (accent), vurgulamak (accent, emphasize, give point to, keynote, lay stress, lay stress on, lay stress upon, play to, stress, underline, underscore), üzerinde durmak (accent, discourse, dwell on, elaborate, emphasize, give point to, harp on, harp upon, insist, lay stress on, lay stress upon, niggle, play to). (various references)

Ukranian 

робити наголос (accent), виділяти (accent, apportion, appropriate, discriminate, evolve, excrete, exempt, exude, give off, ooze, point out, secrete, signalize, single out, singularize, tab, throw off), акцентувати (accent), підкреслювати (accent, emphasize, italicize, point up, punctuate, stress, underline, underscore). (various references)

Welsh

acennu (accent, stress), pwysleisio (emphasize). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "accentuate": accentuated, accentuates. (additional references)

Words ending with "accentuate": overaccentuate. (additional references)

Words containing "accentuate": overaccentuated, overaccentuates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: acutance, catenate, cetacean.

-3 letters: acetate, actuate, catenae, cuneate.

-4 letters: accent, acuate, attune, catena, cetane, nutate, tauten, tenace.

-5 letters: aceta, acute, antae, caeca, centu, eaten, enact, enate, tacet, taunt, tecta, tenet, tutee.

+1 letter: accentuated, accentuates.

+4 letters: overaccentuate.

+5 letters: counterattacked, counterattacker, overaccentuated, overaccentuates.

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